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Looks like Legendary Tales' developers are disappointed in the game's sales and may abandon VR for future projects. I admit I haven't bought the game yet, and it does look really good, it was just the $55 price kinda threw me off (and clearly I'm not the only one). Like, I know during any typical PSN sale I could easily get 3 or 4 other decent VR games equal to the price of just that one game.

They are looking to release the game on Quest and hope that rakes in the money. Don't get me wrong because I really enjoy the PSVR2, but from a potential money standpoint, as an indie dev shouldn't you be targeting Quest first and PSVR2 last?

Anyway, the game certainly addresses one of my common complaints with VR games in that it's a full length (40+ hours) Action/RPG and not something that you will breeze through in a weekend. It also supports 4 player co-op, and I'm a big fan of co-op games, however the friends I play co-op games with have little interest in VR, so I'd be playing this alone or with randoms. They're looking into adding a free trial for PS+ Premium subscribers, so I'll check it out then. I just don't know if I'm ready for this transition into paying higher prices for VR games. I know I'm getting a quality game when Capcom asks full price, but you can never be so sure with indie devs.

I've lost faith in the PSVR2. I thoroughly enjoyed the PSVR and didn't care about cables or fidelity, it was a great experience on PS4.

But then I got a Quest 2 and being untethered was amazing. Meta is a garbage company but they do give coupons and have tons of sales on games. I've rarely had to pay full price for games but at most maybe $30?

With PSVR2 I have been waiting for unique, exclusive games (things like Blood & Truth) to hit but that list is surprisingly small. At this point I think the PSVR2 is going to stall...nowadays the top sellers are hitting multiple systems (Moss, Pistol Whip, Beat Saber, Synth Riders, Star Wars) and Sony isn't pushing very many top-tier exclusives to warrant $500 on top of the $500 system for me.

We have a PS5 but the whole fam is more interested in a standalone Quest 3-lite (which is coming soon and sounds like it'll be "cheaper" than PSVR2) and keeps us untethered + also brings our VR library forward.

I had a lot of PSVR games but the ones I loved the most never got updated for PSVR2 (like Eagle Flight). If the PSVR2 has a version of that, or Half-Life Alyx I'm in.

I saw recently that Quest 2 dropped permanently to $199 and thought "how could I say no to that?" because right now I'm in a VR phase where it's all I want to play...but I know it won't be long until I'll reach the point where I'm tired of it and won't play anything for a couple months, so that makes it difficult to want to add another headset to the mix.

Plus today a trailer was uploaded for a new VR game based on the Alien franchise releasing Holiday 2024, and it specifically had a Quest 3 logo, so that right there changed my mind on a Quest 2 if in just 6 short months new games won't support it already. Granted it has a library of hundreds of titles already and I'm assuming they'd all work on Quest 3, but the price of Quest 3 plus graphical downgrade makes me not as interested anymore. I've heard when media outlets get preview builds of Quest games they are specifically not allowed to make any graphical comparisons between other headsets, nor show blood in any violent games (which is why for the longest time people thought the Bulletstorm VR port wouldn't have gore, but turns out the previews were all just using Quest footage that forbids it). Another thing that bugs me is hearing about The Wizards: Dark Times - Brotherhood on PC VR looked pretty nice graphically. Then once it released on Quest, the PC VR version got a graphical downgrade that some fans suspect was to keep it on an even playing field with Quest. People have been leaving negative reviews for it on Steam and calling it a bait and switch, but one of the devs says they're working on fixing the graphics up again.

With PSVR2, that one single usb-c cable doesn't bother me at all, it has never been a problem, though I don't think I've played any games yet where roomscale setting was the recommended way to play. But if Sony gets their head out of their ass and properly markets this thing, I don't see a reason why we'd need a PSVR3. Like, no reason this shouldn't just work on a PlayStation 6. I feel they've damn near perfected the controllers, and the haptics and eye-tracking are cool features, but few games use them because we get so many lazy Quest ports where the games are built on engines and for headsets that don't support those things. Thankfully that group is at work on porting PS5 flat games to VR, I'd be disappointed if they didn't bother taking advantage of those features. It's rumored Returnal is one of the first games they're working on. I didn't much care for the flat version of it, but I'll give it a second chance in VR (though there are probably a dozen other titles I'd like to see converted to VR instead).

Has anyone else played Beat Saber? After hearing about it for years, I finally gave it a whirl today, and the campaign gets way harder than I expected! I got decently far (to level 17), but I’ve hit a wall. Level 11 was a tough hurdle along the way.

Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:

My kids and I just discovered it recently. It’s really neat and a decent workout. It’s got that “in the zone” feeling that few games require.

I bought Beat Saber back in 2019 I think, on the original PSVR, let one of my nieces try it out but the tracking of the PS Move controllers wasn't working so well and she didn't even get a chance to enjoy it because of that, and I myself never gave it a chance after that.
I do plan to give it a try someday on VR2 but I'll probably put it off until I've played through the rest of my VR2 library.

I never played it on PSVR, but the tracking on the PSVR2 version is basically perfect. It’s really fun. I finally got past level 17 and then beat 18 pretty quickly. It’s hard but satisfying to progress in it.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

The big two-oh-oh
https://twitter.com/psvrdb/status/1790550822008307...

Reminds me of that "I have nothing to play" meme.

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